14 DAY TRIAL // The first dumb phone launched by Microsoft, the Nokia 130 will soon make its debut on the market. Until then though, it looks like the Redmond-based company wants to know what you’re most excited about in the phone.
The reasons Microsoft is running this poll are various, and one of them may be the fact that the company wants to continue to launch feature phones, and one advantage would be to know what they should focus on when developing a new device.
You are permitted to select three selling points that would make you want to own the Nokia 130, and Microsoft promised to count votes and share the results with the world in about a week’s time.
Given that it’s been less than an hours since the poll went live, it’s hard to determine the outcome, though at least one of the options in the poll, that of the low price, is likely to be the winner.
At the time of writing, almost 30% of those voting have chosen among the three options the low €19 ($25) price. The second option is the long standby time and then support for microSD memory card (up to 32GB).
Surprisingly, the fact that it comes in dual-SIM variation is not among the first three choices in the poll, but the results may change during the week of voting, so we can’t rely on these statistics yet.
We do believe though that the low price of the Nokia 130 will be among the strongest points of the feature phone at the end of poll voting.
Unfortunately, Nokia 130 has some drawbacks as well, and one of these might be the fact that users won’t be able to install third-party apps such as WhatsApp Messenger.
However, the phone will come with Opera Mini browser pre-installed and set as the default web browser for this feature phone. Luckily, Nokia 130 does include GPRS support, so you will be able to browse the Internet at very low speeds.
But for €19 ($25), Nokia 130 is quite a decent handset. It sports a 1.8-inch display that supports 65K colors and 128 x 160 pixels resolution. It also comes with Bluetooth 3.0 and microUSB 2.0 support, as well as FM Radio and flashlight function.
There’s no camera on the back, but at least you will benefit from the phone’s long battery life: up to 865 hours of standby, up to 13 hours of talk time. Go ahead and take Microsoft’s Nokia 130 poll and let us know in the comments why you would buy the feature phone.